Prague in History

Lays siege to Prague

Ottokar II opposed the electoral arrangement that favoured Rudolf of Habsburg.

John of Bohemia maintains claims connected to the Polish succession

Makes Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Hopes to transform Prague into the "Rome of the North"

Birth of Anne of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles IV by Elizabeth of Pomerania

Birth of Anne of Austria, daughter of Emperor Charles IV by Elizabeth of Pomerania

Charles IV continues governing the Holy Roman Empire from the Bohemian centre

Ferdinand agrees peace terms with Suleyman's empire

Maximilian is recognized as King of Bohemia before becoming emperor

Publishes laws of elliptical planetary motion that prepare celestial mechanics for Newtonian gravity.

Publishes support for Galileo's discovery of satellites orbiting Jupiter.

The Protestant Bohemians assemble at Prague in defiance of the royal command to dissolve

Birth of Rupert of the Rhine, 3rd son of Frederick V & grandson of James I of England

Birth of Rupert of the Rhine, 3rd son of Frederick V & grandson of James I of England

Under the Treaty of Prague John George I receives Lusatia. Signed after defeats at Breitenfeld & Lutzen. Concludes a peace with Emperor Ferdinand II

Charles Albert & the French capture Prague

Charles Albert’s Bavarian, French, and Saxon allies stormed Prague and occupied the Bohemian capital.

Charles Albert was crowned rival King of Bohemia after his forces occupied Prague.

Leads 80,000 men through Saxony & Silesia into Bohemia

Captures Prague then moves south to the Danube where he threatens Vienna

Frederick II the Great marches into Prague

Marches from Glatz, meets the King's army under the walls of Prague, and in the siege and capture of that place he plays a distinguished part

Frederick II the Great captures Prague

Forced to retreat after the non-arrival of the French due to the illness of Louis XV

Frederick II the Great defeats the Austrians & lays siege to Prague

Marshal Daun goes to the relief of Prague with 60,000 troops. Frederick II the Great defeats the Austrians & lays siege to Prague

Frederick II the Great is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Kolin & forced to evacuate Bohemia & Prague

The North German Confederation is the alliance of 22 German states (Augustbundnis)

Prussia declares the old Confederation dissolved after the Federal Diet's mobilization vote.

The August Alliance binds twenty-two northern German states to Prussian military leadership.

The treaty ends Austro-Prussian hostilities and confirms the broad Nikolsburg terms.

Austria accepts dissolution of the Confederation and Prussian reorganization north of the Main.

Bismarck secures a moderate settlement and rejects demands to annex Austrian territory.

Prussia and Baden conclude peace and a secret defensive alliance.

The settlement protects the separate sovereignty of southern Germany while allowing Prussian alliances.

The treaty confirms transfer of Austrian rights in Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia.

Wilhelm accepts the final treaty ending the war with Austria on comparatively moderate terms.

Austrian Silesia remains under Habsburg rule because Prussia demands no Austrian territory.

Appointed Commander of Hitler's HQ for the occupation of Prague

Appointed Commander of Hitler's HQ for the occupation of Prague

Enters Prague

Hacha is forced to sign a communique placing "Czech people in the hands of the Fuhrer"

Hitler sleps in the Presidential Palace

Hitler occupied the Czech lands, violating the Munich pledge that the Sudetenland was Germany's final territorial demand.

Hitler proclaims a Proctecorate over Bohemia & Moravia

Hitler proclaims a Proctecorate over Bohemia & Moravia, Czech ceases to exist

After the plans for the Final Solution are laid down at the Wannsee conference, Heydrich is attacked by members of the Czech underground resistance

Dies after an attack by the Czech resistence, 3 Czech parachutists with British support in an open car